Riverdale, NY - In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month and in conjunction with the Manhattan Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the Athletic Department has compiled a list of resources all of Jasper Nation can utilize when in need.
The Manhattan College
Counseling Center offers a wide range of services to full-time undergraduate students, including short-term individual therapy, crisis intervention, substance abuse screenings, psychological education and referrals. The Counseling Center clinicians are licensed psychologists, social workers and mental health counselors from different cultural and theoretical backgrounds. They guide students through the therapeutic process to increase awareness and develop healthy coping strategies.
Website: https://inside.manhattan.edu/student-life/counseling-center/index.php
Phone: 718-862-7394
New York City's
NYC Well is your connection to free, confidential mental health support. Users can speak to a counselor via phone, text, or chat and get access to mental health and substance use services, in more than 200 languages, 24/7/365. This program focuses on topics such as suicide prevention and crisis counseling, peer support and short-term counseling, referrals and warm transfer to other services, and follow-ups to check that you have connected to care and it is working for you.
Website: https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/en/omh.ny.gov
Phone: 1-888-NYC-WELL (1-888-692-9355)
Text: Text WELL to 65173
New York State's
Office of Mental Health promotes the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a particular focus on providing hope and recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. OMH operates psychiatric centers across the state and also regulates, certifies and oversees more than 4,500 programs, operated by local governments and nonprofit agencies.
Website: https://omh.ny.gov/
Phone: 1-844-863-9314
The NCAA's
Sport Science Institute provides educational resources and inter-association best practices and tools which offer a model of care for student-athlete mental health. SSI strives to improve access to quality mental healthcare with the goal of creating a culture where care-seeking for mental health issues is as normative as care-seeking for physical injuries.
Website: http://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/mental-health
Jasper Nation can also watch our full Jasper Chat with Dr. Jennifer Gullesserian, assistant professor of counseling and therapy and director of Manhattan's graduate mental health counseling programs.
